"If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others."

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Source : Alice Miller (1981). “Prisoners of Childhood”, New York : Basic Books

Alice Miller

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.”
“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitlerâ€™s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”
“Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.”
“If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.”
“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.”
“It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.”
“There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.”
“Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.”

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